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text; four days after his death

[capturingeternity]

I'm alive. Did you manage to escape?

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[ Yeah, that lengthy pause? That's her staring at the text like her device is fucking possessed. ]

Dorian?
How are you alive?

un: dorian

[capturingeternity]

[This is the first time he's used his device since, and he finds that it's apparently been put back to its default settings. So he fixes that before his next reply.]

Yes.

I'm not sure. I awoke roughly a day ago inside of a morgue in the Down.

My memories of what happened are still somewhat scattered.

un: daimonori

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[ Christ. Christ, that's... She feels sick. She should've stayed and tried to find which one was him. But she didn't. She's a fucking coward. ]

I heard people could come back from the dead but I didn't believe it or trust it.
Shit.
Are you sure you really want to remember?
Obviously you remember I was with you.

[capturingeternity]

Consider it confirmed, then. I still don't recommend it.

[He can't help but try to joke, to cover up the fact that it disturbed and terrified him.]

And I don't know. They've been coming back bit by bit on their own, but the last few moments are the clearest. Perhaps I should just wait.

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It's up to you. I'll tell you, if you want.

[ And despite saying the ball is in his court, she has to ask-- ]

Why did you do that for me?
Why did you try to save me?
You know what I am.

[capturingeternity]

Saving you wasn't on my mind.

I stepped in front of you because it afforded me a better shot.

I intended to kill them both and would have, had I been able to. So what does that make me?

[What Ava is hadn't influenced his actions, at all. But after a few seconds he sends another text.]

You tried far harder to save me than I would have, had our situations been reversed. But I am grateful for what you did.

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[ sure, jan. ]

It makes you pragmatic and practical.
And I expected you to have kept yourself safe.
I don't think less of you for it.

[ Really, she doesn't. Survival is survival. ]

I'm sorry for what happened.
Honestly, I am.
It should've been me.

[capturingeternity]

[stop calling him out.]

I would have preferred it to be neither of us, personally. But had it been you, I imagine your struggle would have been even greater than my own.

I've spent half of the last day in a frenzy of lust, though it's passed now.

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Christ, that sounds like shit.

I've already died. What's one more death going to do? And at least you wouldn't have needed to see my body. I would've turned to dust.

[capturingeternity]

I'm conditioned to handle it I suppose. But after a point, it's too much like putting butter on bacon.

And how would that have been much better? I might possess a crippling fear of dust, you know.

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Ugh. Yeah, that sounds overwhelming. Hard pass. This city does nothing in moderation. It sucks that you've been stuck...like that.

[ Dorian's usual turned up to 15 sounds over the top. ]

Har har. Your clothes might have been stained with dried up skin. Oh, whatever would you do?

[capturingeternity]

[It was pretty intense and very taxing. Here's hoping he doesn't have to repeat it for quite a while.]

No, it certainly doesn't. But what's done is done.

Burn them to destroy the offending dust?

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You wouldn't even keep my dust?! I'm offended. Offended, I tell you. You'd be missing out on a morbid fashion choice.